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Mackintosh's finial for Pettigrew and Stephen's department store which is on display in the sculpture courtyard of the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.
The crane was commissioned in 1926 by the Clyde Navigation Trust, the operators of the port and dock facilities in Glasgow. It was completed in 1932 with the tower built by Cowans, Sheldon & Company of Carlisle and the cantilever by the Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company. It is situated at the Stobcross Quay on the north bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, and cost a total of £52,351.
Remind me again why we pay $100 or more for these fine leather shoes? We should be wearing Wellies in this weather.
Set in barren, peat moors, the new Visitor Centre to Whitelee wind farm, sits gracefully observing the new landscape it heralds. A material palette of timber, stone, copper and slate, ensures the building blends into the landscape and a range of environmental measures helps ensure a low impact on the surrounding environment. More images can be seen online: www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/whitelee_wind_farm.htm
Hypostyle Architects
Last week I made a couple of visits to Whitelee Wind Farm on Eaglesham Moor to begin a set of photographs of the recently completed visitor centre to the site. Ive been taking photographs for Hypostyle Architects who designed the building offering educational and visitor facilities for the site. On first visiting the area you are truly blown away by the scale of this place - the barren undulating landscape has been transformed into a catalyst for renewable power; personally i find it hard to object to these being built, and find they have a certain timeless elegance? As the debate for and against continues in more sensitive sites, here is a bold statement highlighting our new found quest for clean energy! I will post more shots once i have finished the job. More images are online www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/whitelee_wind_farm.htm
The former Glasgow Sheriff Court in Wilson Street built in 1844. The competition winning, neo-classical design was by the Glasgow based partnership of William Clarke & George Bell.
I had a mooch around Muirend recently and started at the old Toledo / ABC Muirend cinema, a charming little cinema where I worked briefly as holiday cover from the Odeon, who by then owned both cinema chains. Converted to flats, this is how it looks in November 2019, I’ve also included some of my archive pictures, taken shortly after closure and a Scottish Screen Archive picture of the Toledo in 1933. “The Toledo opened on 2nd October 1933. Originally seating 1,598 people It was designed by William Beresford Inglis, who built other cinemas in Glasgow and also designed the Beresford Hotel in Sauchiehall Street. The cinema design is a rare Scottish example of an atmospheric cinema. The Toledo interior was designed to give a feel that the patron was sitting outside in a Spanish courtyard, surrounded on either side by small false buildings and painted landscapes, with a ceiling above painted blue to feel like sky. Even more rarely, the exterior of the building was also in a "Spanish/American" style.” (Wikipedia) The Toledo closed on 21st October 2001 and is now flats behind the ‘B’ listed facade. #glasgow #glasgowlife #glasgowcinemas #glasgowcinema #glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #cinema #cinemaarchitecture #cinemaarchitects #williamberesfordinglis #atmosphericcinema #toledo #toledocinema #abccinemas #abccinema #muirend #beresfordhotel #beresfordbuildingglasgow #cinemabuildings #cinematreasures #scottishcinema #scottishcinemas
A frosty winter's day at the year's end.
Dalkeith Palace (c. 1702) on the site of an earlier castle and the seat of the Montagu Douglas Scott family. The Palace was the creation of Anna Scott, the 1st Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch’s widow, who employed architect James Smith. Alterations by John Adam (1762) and James Playfair (1786).
"When the Duke of Monmouth died his widow, Anne, asked James Smith to use William of Orange's Palace in Holland as a model for Dalkeith Palace. James Smith completed this large Scottish Country House in 1701-11: it was deemed the grandest of Scottish Classical Houses."
Source: www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/dalkeith_castle.htm
Dalkeith Country Park:
www.dalkeithcountrypark.co.uk/outdoor-activities/walking-...
Buccleuch estates: www.buccleuch.com/
I love a red and cream brick building and this is an especially nice example in Bridgeton, Glasgow that I hadn’t seen before. #glasgow #glasgowarchitecture #bridgeton #bridgetonglasgow #glasgoweastend #eastendglasgow #redandcream #redandcreambricks #redbrickwarehouse #insta_glasgow #glasgowphotography #glasgowphotographer #scottisharchitecture #greenheadweavingfactory
One of Gdansk's most outstanding art pieces is the Defenders of the Polish Post Monument, remembering those who perished in one of the first altercations of WW2.
Commissioned in 1979 and unveiled on the 40th anniversary of the historic event, this stainless steel monument designed by Krakow sculptor Wincenty Kuzma is one of the most aesthetically pleasing examples of communist-era public art.
Black and white photograph of the Mitchell Library , Glasgow, which is a fantastic piece of Glasgow architecture.
Available to buy or licence.
Michael Murray
Digital Fine Artist
Private and corporate art commissions
Nearyy opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, on Argyle Street in the West End of Glasgow.
Designed by Thomas Somers.
From Wikipedia:
"The Kelvin Hall stands on the banks of the River Kelvin, opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow. It was designed to complement the municipal display of Kelvingrove Park, in particular the nearby Gallery and Museum. Fronted in red sandstone with a palatial entrance piazza, the immense steel-framed building dates from 1927. . . It was built for Glasgow Corporation in 1926-1927 and was designed by Thomas Somers, Glasgow's Master of Work and City Engineer, assisted by Thomas Gilchrist Gilmour. Thomas Somers also designed the new bridge over the Clyde at Oswald Street, known as the King George V Bridge, which was also declared open by King George V on the same day, 12 July 1927."